We try to be as accurate as possible with our evaluations and have therefore defined many different criteria for calculating the hype score of an ICO.

Considered for the hype rating of an ICO are among others:

- number of social media followers (we do audits that they are real); not all social media accounts have the same impact with the same amount of users. Facebook and Twitter, for example, are less important than Telegram or Bitcointalk.

- activity of the followers/members on social media/telegram/bitcointalk - again, we check that everything is correct, not written by some type of bots. On Bitcointalk you could often see newbies comment something like "cool project" with no real relation to the ICO - mostly like 20 times or more with different accounts. While that in theory may be real persons, we consider it unlikely and do not take such posts into account at all, actually, we even give the ICO a worse rating as such behaviour is just scammy.

- the general mood towards the ICO:

Are most of the people rather critical and ask double and triple questions, or is the community more hyped on the ICO?